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From North American Aerospace Defense

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Command , Peterson Space Force Base in

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Colorado , Major General , Constance

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Jenkins General . So good to see you .

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Thanks for being with us here in the

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Mississippi Coast . This is it NORAD

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tracking Santa . When did this mission

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begin for you ? So Nora tracking Santa

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started back in 1955 when there was an

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inadvertent misprint in a local paper

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with regards to calling Santa to get

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his whereabouts . And we've been doing

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this for sev 68 years and we're really

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excited about all of the additional um

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opportunity to do this and all of the

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uh different types of domain awareness

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activities we use for it . Ok . Well ,

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we have Christmas Eve right around the

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corner , but I think haven't you been

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tracking ? I went to your website

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Santa's since about December 1st

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because there's a nice little countdown

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clock there on your website . Yeah , we

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love our website , NORAD santa.org .

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It's a great place to go and the kids

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can play some games . You can get some

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additional information on the NORAD

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mission where we're in charge of North

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American defense and it's just such an

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exciting website . We have nine

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different languages . You can get that

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website in . Now . This year we added

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Korean . So it's a wonderful

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opportunity for the kids to go play

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some games . Keep track of how many

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days it is until Santa comes and just

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get an overall feel for where we're at .

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What are the men and women and a lot of

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volunteers involved in this . But what

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do the men and women with NORAD enjoy

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about this annual tracking Santa . You

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know , I have to tell you from my

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perspective , the best part about

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tracking Santa is the ability to answer

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those phone calls . I had a phone call

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last year from the cutest little boy in

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Madagascar . And he said , where's

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Santa ? And I said , he's nine minutes

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from Madagascar . And this little boy

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said , no , I'm in Madagascar . And I

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said , well , then you better get to

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bed because he's gonna be there in nine

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minutes . And it was so cute . He

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dropped the phone and he ran . So , you

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know , just the ability to be able to

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answer that phone and talk to the kids .

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It's just , it's such a joyous occasion

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for us on the 24th of December every

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year . Now , we're down here on the

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Mississippi Coast , Central Standard

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Time , I think NORAD kind of tracks

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Santa around the world based on time

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zones , right ? Yes , that's correct .

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We're tracking Santa for the whole

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globe . We get kids call in from all

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over the globe and , and try to find

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out where Santa is . So , whether

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you're down in Biloxi or you're here in

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Colorado there , you can be sure that

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we've got Santa on the radar . We're

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tracking him with the satellites and we

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got those fighter pilots out there

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keeping an eye on him . So we've got

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him covered . You just need to check in

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with us at either NORAD santa.org or

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call that number 18774466723 . And

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it is a terrific website . I looked at

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it uh just today , General Constance

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Jenkins with no ad tracking Santa .

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Thanks for being with us . Ok . And

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good luck this year . Merry Christmas .

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Merry Christmas . Thanks for the

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opportunity .